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Nov 24, 2024 | 
onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Kit Kowol
Following its defeat at the 2024 general election, the Conservative Party will likely look for lessons either in its past—specifically its successful response to Labour's landslide victory in 1945—or from sister parties overseas, notably the Australian Liberal Party. The article argues that Britain and the Conservative Party have changed so fundamentally since the end of the World War Two—and indeed since 1997—to make any comparison meaningless.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
cityam.com | Kit Kowol
Thursday 03 October 2024 5:53 am | Updated: Wednesday 02 October 2024 11:18 am How Conservatives won World War Two Prime Minister Winston Churchill outside 10 Downing Street, gesturing his famous ‘V for Victory’ hand signal, London, June 1943.
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
blog.oup.com | Kit Kowol
By Kit Kowol September 30th 2024 The last verse of William Blake’s epic poem written in 1804 reads:I will not cease from Mental Fight,Nor shall my Sword sleep in my hand:Till we have built Jerusalem,In Englands green & pleasant Land.
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Sep 9, 2024 | 
quadrant.org.au | Kit Kowol |Peter O'Brien |Mervyn F. Bendle |Peter SMith |Peter Smith
Blue Jerusalem: British Conservatism, Winston Churchill, and the Second World Warby Kit KowolOxford University Press, 2024, 352 pages, $63.95This intriguing book should appeal to those interested in British military, political, and cultural history, as well as those concerned with the very considerable philosophical and political possibilities of conservatism, both as they existed during the Second World War era and as they exist now.
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Sep 1, 2024 | 
literaryreview.co.uk | Kit Kowol
Tories on the Home Front By Oxford University Press 352pp £30 Subscribe or Sign In to read the full article For People Who Devour Books...
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Aug 16, 2024 | 
conservativehome.com | Winston Churchill |Kit Kowol |Andrew Gimson
Blue Jerusalem: British Conservatism, Winston Churchill, and the Second World War by Kit KowolThe Second World War was a “People’s War” during which Labour prepared the great reforming measures it would implement after 1945, while the Conservatives were intellectually moribund and devoted no thought to the policies needed once the war had been won. This, according to Kit Kowol, is the received, but mistaken, view of the period 1940-45, and about that error he is probably correct.
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Aug 13, 2024 | 
historytoday.com | Kit Kowol
We like to think that we know what the Second World War was fought for: freedom, democracy and the defeat of Germany and the evils of fascism. Compared to subsequent conflicts, the aims of the war seem self-evident and straightforward. But back in 1939, none of this was clear. Faced with a war he had desperately sought to avoid, no one was more tight-lipped about war aims than the prime minister, Neville Chamberlain.
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Mar 8, 2024 | 
onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Kit Kowol
The British Conservative Party is among the most institutionalized political parties in the world. Formed in the 1830s, by the late 19th century it had developed the kind of elaborate rules, procedures, and organizations, which are characteristic of a “routinized” political party.
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Jun 12, 2023 | 
politicalquarterly.org.uk | Kit Kowol
12 June, 2023 | 7 mins read British academia, and the study of British history in the UK, is overwhelmingly left-leaning. In any history department, you are likely to find colleagues with a similar set of views on Brexit (opposed), immigration (positive), public spending (more), taxes (higher), trade unions (not powerful enough) and climate change (an existential threat).
